Cultural Barriers of Female Empowerment

Abstract

Pakistan follows the patriarchal family system and man is the head of the family. Although Pakistan is composed of above 50% of female population, man is dominant in all fields of life. The main reason for male dominancy is the patriarchal family system, which is followed all over the country. Under these circumstances, women in Pakistan are facing many social and cultural problems to live a good life and to have their deserving rights. The present study will try to trace the excessive approaches and immorally established thoughts of women subordination, which are the major barriers in women empowerment. For the social, cultural, economical, political and educational development, female empowerment is the basic key to give them freedom under their deserving rights. The basic rights like, jobs, medical facilities and decision making power are not provided to women when compared to men. They perceived these characteristics as barriers in their supervisory duties. External barriers they explained in the context of environment. The present study was conducted in rural areas of Summandry Town. Multistage sampling technique was used for data collection. At the first stage, three union councils were selected through simple sampling technique. At the second stage, four villages were selected through the systematic sampling technique. In the end a sample of 120 (female) respondents were selected through systematic sampling techniques. Data were collected through well designed interview schedule and analysed by using Statistic Package for Social Science (SPSS).